The Answer My Friend, Is Blowing In the Wind…
Interesting news recently: Glasgow University ad committed “to fully disinvesting from fossil fuel industry companies”, subject to reassurance that the financial impact for the university would be...
Greetings from the Green Dales of Yorkshire
Aug 19, 2014
I'm into phase II of my summer holidays - back in our favourite spot of Askrigg in Wensleydale. In the past, I've always refused on...
Making Your Business Resilient with the Sustainability Masterminds
Aug 1, 2014
Last week saw the eighth meeting of the Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group. We rolled up to another top-notch venue, the Lord Crewe Arms in Blanchland...
Donald Rumsfeld was right (about one thing, anyway…)
Jul 28, 2014
Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary under George W Bush has long been derided for this explanation of the flimsiness of the evidence for going to war...
Will you be a carboniferous fossil in a low carbon economy?
Jul 21, 2014
Kodak is often held up as the archetypal extinction of the digital age. The photographic film giant invented but rejected the product - the digital...
My Generation (or the next…)?
Jun 20, 2014
I was speaking to a senior manager from a major company last week, a gent of a certain age on the brink of retirement, and I...
The First Law of Sustainability
Jun 2, 2014
The Second Law of Thermodynamics says: The entropy of a closed system always increases. Indulge me here for a minute... Entropy is a measure of...
Are you capturing all the benefits of Sustainability?
Mar 14, 2014
The news that wind power is saving Europe €2.4bn worth of water each year (source BusinessGreen) reminded me that we need to capture all the benefits...
The Green Economy IS Happening
Feb 24, 2014
Last Thursday, on the last full day of my Cumbrian holiday, I took the elder two boys back to Hodbarrow nature reserve and, after...
My Prediction for 2014: The Year of the Resource Crunch
Dec 31, 2013
Back in 2009/10 when I was writing The Green Executive, I interviewed 18 senior sustainability practitioners to generate fresh case studies. I asked all of...